Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression

2006-05-13 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! On Fri, 12 May 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: %Sys %Intr %Idl RELENG_6 + rl0 45 40 15 RELENG_6 + fxp0 45 35 20 %Sys %Intr %Idl time md5 -t wall clock time RELENG_6 + rl0 34 24 42 1:43 RELENG_6 + fxp0

Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression

2006-05-13 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! On Fri, 12 May 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: So maybe it's time to add, say, options INVARIANTS_EXTENDED for these new and expensive checks, and leave only basic and cheap (yet effective for bug hunting) asserts enabled when only options INVARIANTS is defined? No, they are

Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression

2006-05-13 Thread Jonathan Noack
On 05/13/06 01:59, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: %Sys %Intr %Idl RELENG_6 + rl0 45 40 15 RELENG_6 + fxp0 45 35 20 %Sys %Intr %Idl time md5 -t wall clock time RELENG_6 + rl0 34

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-13 Thread Joseph Koshy
I have a test PC here which is quite old (FreeBSD 4.mumble, Tcl 8.2) and it never sees any problems. I am soon going to try an identical system to the one failing (6.0-STABLE) Have you checked if the PC's serial port adheres to RS232 specs? -- FreeBSD Developer,

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 13 May 2006 19:15, Joseph Koshy wrote: I have a test PC here which is quite old (FreeBSD 4.mumble, Tcl 8.2) and it never sees any problems. I am soon going to try an identical system to the one failing (6.0-STABLE) Have you checked if the PC's serial port adheres to RS232

Re: panic: page fault on freshly installed 6.1 from cvs

2006-05-13 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
Boris Samorodov wrote on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:46: On Thu, 11 May 2006 01:28:29 +0200 Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote: Here is a transcript of what is shown on-screen before crash appears: nvidia0: GeForce 6800 mem 0xfa00-0xfaff,0xe800-oxeff,0xfb00-0xfbff irq 16 at

old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Dan Strick
I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and had no problems during the basic installation. I did a Custom install and seleced All in the Choose Distributions menu. When I attempt to run a program compiled on release 5.4 under release 6.1, the system complains that it cannot find libc.so.5. On my release

Re: pagezero again

2006-05-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Suleiman Souhlal wrote: Can you give the output of top(1)? Until this is fixed, you can disable pagezero with sysctl vm.idlezero_enable=0. It's weekend so the load is not that great today: last pid: 39200; load averages: 0.94, 1.07, 1.06up 3+19:07:24 13:55:38 131 processes: 4

if_xe and altq on FreeBSD-6

2006-05-13 Thread Mateusz Jędrasik
Hello, I've recently became an owner of Xircom 16-bit PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet Card, which gets picked up by FreeBSD-6.1 as xe0 by the if_xe(4) driver. Here is a line from dmesg: snip xe0: Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 at port 0xd040-0xd04f iomem 0xff904000-0xff904fff irq 11 function 0

Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression

2006-05-13 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:01:18AM -0400 I heard the voice of Jonathan Noack, and lo! it spake thus: Have you tried putting I586_CPU in there? See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020696.html. As Peter Jeremy mentioned in

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-13 Thread Holger Kipp
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:13:08PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am trying to talk to a high voltage power supply unit we're using at work, it uses RS232 and you can read back current, voltage, faults, etc.. What I have seems to work fine except that occassionally I get junk read back,

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 13 May 2006 20:59, Dan Strick wrote: When I attempt to run a program compiled on release 5.4 under release 6.1, the system complains that it cannot find libc.so.5. On my release 5.4 system, /usr/lib/compat contains old shared libraries. On my release 6.1 system, /usr/lib/compat

Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:59:01AM +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: I'm just trying to understand why performance of RELENG_6 is worse than in RELENG_4 _that much_, and whether this sad situation can be improved somehow. The architecture of the system substantially changed in the 5.X

Re: pagezero again

2006-05-13 Thread Sam Leffler
Suleiman Souhlal wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 39 root1 -44 -163 0K 8K pgzero 1 772:59 18.41% pagezero It looks like the pagezero thread has a wrong priority. It should be 171 . I guess there's a bug in

Re: pagezero again

2006-05-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Sam Leffler wrote: Maybe this is the same problem jhb recently fixed in head with threads getting assigned the wrong priority under certain conditions (it showed up most easily with taskq threads). Is it this one: jhb 2006-04-17 18:20:38 UTC FreeBSD src repository Modified

INVARIANTS (was Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression)

2006-05-13 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:37:40AM -0400 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: With respect to INVARIANTS, you just need to get used to the fact that running thousands of checks for bugs is incompatible with running at optimal speed. (I'm not sure what the point of

Re: INVARIANTS (was Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression)

2006-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:52:32AM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:37:40AM -0400 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: With respect to INVARIANTS, you just need to get used to the fact that running thousands of checks for bugs is

Re: if_xe and altq on FreeBSD-6

2006-05-13 Thread Max Laier
Hi Mateusz, On Sat, May 13, 2006 2:04 pm, Mateusz Jędrasik wrote: I've recently became an owner of Xircom 16-bit PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet Card, which gets picked up by FreeBSD-6.1 as xe0 by the if_xe(4) driver. Here is a line from dmesg: snip xe0: Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 at port

Re: INVARIANTS (was Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression)

2006-05-13 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:58:26AM -0400 I heard the voice of Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus: FYI, INVARIANTS adds checks but does not (is not supposed to) divert code paths. It does at least in UMA; it does a lot of bzero()/NULL'ing out of memory, which might hide later

DOH! ata_alloc_composite failed!

2006-05-13 Thread Mike Jakubik
I just noticed these messages in my security log on one of my production servers, running 6.1. Can anyone shed some light as to what is going on here? This is a dual core opteron system, on a tyan mb, with a nvidia chipset. The filesystem is on the nvidia raid1 controller. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

Re: Reproducable file corruption on 6-STABLE

2006-05-13 Thread Matti J. Karki
On 5/13/06, Paul Schenkeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I try to copy a large (7GB+) file from one filesystem to another the copy is not equal to te source file. This behaviour can be reproduced repeatedly. Details: - FreeBSD 6-STABLE, cvsupped yesterday Hi! I have very

Re: SATA Failure Introduced between 6.0 and 6.1-RC1

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Kane
Jared wrote: Hi -stable! I'd like to bring something to the attention of -stable that was posted to -amd64 but has not yet being resolved: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/95554 I'm unable to test to see if this occurs on i386 aswell so am unsure if this is the right list

Re: the crred

2006-05-13 Thread Bernardo Crosbie
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Re: Can't select/install kernels in custom install.cfg - 6.1RC2

2006-05-13 Thread Paul Koch
On Fri, 5 May 2006 05:33 pm, Paul Koch wrote: Hi, I have just upgraded some of our product build machines to 6.1RC2 and I am having a few problems getting a custom install.cfg to work with the way sysinstall now selects/installs kernels. I am trying to select a custom distribution set using

ATA DMA corruption on 5.5-beta4

2006-05-13 Thread Phil Kernick
I have been having repeated filesystem corruption issues on 5.4 and 5.5-beta4. The problems only occur on disks connected to the VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller. There have been no problems at all with the HighPoint controller. The problems only occur under heavy load with lots of reads and

Re: Reproducable file corruption on 6-STABLE

2006-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:33:38PM +0300, Matti J. Karki wrote: On 5/13/06, Paul Schenkeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I try to copy a large (7GB+) file from one filesystem to another the copy is not equal to te source file. This behaviour can be reproduced repeatedly.

Re: DOH! ata_alloc_composite failed!

2006-05-13 Thread Mike Jakubik
Rostislav Krasny wrote: Hi, May 13 03:01:29 ns1 kernel: DOH! ata_alloc_composite failed! May 13 03:01:29 ns1 last message repeated 2 times I'm not a FreeBSD developer but after looking at the source code I can say that that kernel message goes from src/sys/dev/ata/ata-raid.c because

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Dan Strick
[I may have missed some responses to my original posting because the current set of postings has been cleaned out but not yet installed in the mailing list archive.] I just installed FreeBSD 6.1, selecting All in the distributions selection menu, and discovered that the compat* distributions are

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:40:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [I may have missed some responses to my original posting because the current set of postings has been cleaned out but not yet installed in the mailing list archive.] I just installed

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sunday 14 May 2006 12:10, Dan Strick wrote: Is this the official work-around? I see that there are also compat4x and compat3x ports in /usr/ports/misc. Is 1x, 20, 21, and 22 compatibility support gone forever? (Not that I would miss it. I only need 4x and 5x compatibility.) It isn't a